This blog is about the KCCD2009 (King Croesus Contempt for Death) Trip and it's preparations. The journey will be performed on 2x 1939 Nimbus motorcycles with sidecars and ETD is April 2009. ETA is unknown, as you never know if it's a Sweet Chariot or an Infernal Machine you ride.

Saturday, 15 August 2009

Ulan Bator, Mongoliet

Ok dudes, we're still alive. We've reached Ulan Bator after 2000kilometers off-road driving. It's been several major breakdowns but we made it. The hard part is over now and the bikes are still moveable.

I am working on a proper update now and hope to post something more thorough shortly so stay tuned. I will start the updates from Burabike in Kazakhstan, so the juicy stuff from Mongolia will come after a while.

Since the last update we've had three total fork failures, one float and 5 sparkplugs have vibrated to death, both of the sidecars are more or less dissolved, one handlebar is dead and one clutch disc is on its way to clutch disc-heaven.

3 Comments:

Kim said...

Fantastic landscape, really wish I was there, riding the Mongolian steppe on my own Nimbus. By the way, you're packing way too much gear - all I'd take is a small tent, a sleeping bag, a one-piece rain suit and a credit card.